In Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, the French director makes his second leap toward the English-language realm (following Esther...
Trippy, bizarre, surreal and hallucinatory are all excellent adjectives with which to describe Ari Folman's The Congress. Adapted from a novel by legendary sci-...
Kim Ki-Duk’s Pietà may draw its title from a famous Michelangelo sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary embracing the body of Jesus Christ, but the movie itself ...
It’s not hard to view an experimental art film as little more than a pretentious, self-indulgent exercise in futility when you aren’t willing to give it a chanc...
Should we forget the past in order to better our future? This existential question is at the core of The Past, Asghar Farhadi's follow-up film to the Oscar-winn...
There’s a moment early in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness that irrevocably moves this series away from the gentler humanist roots of its creator Gene Rodde...
I don’t generally keep up on current affairs because there’s just too much going on outside my comfy little bubble with no immediate concern to me. Yes, I’m one...
The best thing about the new found footage film, Willow Creek, is its nifty pairing of two undeniably quirky American originals, one famous for running in the b...
A culturally significant film marking the first official cinematic co-production between Australia and China, Pauline Chan's 33 Postcards also provides a moving...
The frozen plains of Finnish Lapland may not seem like a natural setting for a modern Western, but Jessica Oreck’s Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys convin...
